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Ebony on the scene
Ebony, Oct, 2005
IN ATLANTA, thousands of demonstrators, young and old, marched down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in support of extending the 40-year-old Voting Rights Act. Supporters on the front line include the Rev. Joseph Lowery, former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.); AME Bishop Vashti McKenzie: U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.): U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.): entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., founder and president of the rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
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IN DALLAS, GM Goodwrench race car driver Harold Martin poses for a photograph with future GM Goodwrench driver GaMarcus Goudeau at the 4th annual EBONY Black Family Reunion, which includes stops in eight cities.
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IN HOLLYWOOD, three distinctive styles are exhibited by three top celebrities. Former boxing champion and current television show producer Sugar Ray Leonard is casual chic in a striped, cream suit with an open-collar shirt. TV and film star Vivica A. Fox turns heads in a low-cut, ruffled dress with the hint of a slit, and Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon is classic elegance in a shoulder-baring, form-fitting, full-length black gown.
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IN MILWAUKEE, Kevin Hall, hitting out of a sand trap, made his PGA Tour debut during the U.S. Bank Championship at Brown Deer park. Hall, a former golfer at Ohio State University, has been deaf since a bout with meningitis when he was 2. The 22-year-old has been playing competitively for 12 years. He was the first African-American to play golf on scholarship for Ohio State.
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IN HOLLYWOOD, a number of celebrity couples step into the spotlight to display a variety of sartorial splendor. Among those who are making fashion statements are Grammy Award-winning producer Jimmy Jam Harris and his wife, Lisa; San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds and his wife, Elizabeth; actress Lela Rochon and her husband, award-winning film director Antoine Fuqua; and Rodney Peete, former NFL quarterback and current sports talk-show co-host, and his wife, actress Holly Robinson-Peete.
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